The floral design workshop offered by Stephen F. Austin State University is one of the programs designed by the Mast Arboretum to provide practical information to gardeners. The next workshop is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan 24.

A workshop at Stephen F. Austin State University on Jan. 24 will give participants an introduction to floral design. Dr. Michael Maurer, SFA assistant professor of horticulture, will teach the class.

Dr. Leon Young

The SFA Mast Arboretum Les Reeves Lecture Series is held the third Thursday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Stephen F. Austin University Agriculture Building, Room 110 on Wilson Drive.

On Jan. 15, Dr. Leon Young will present information regarding the SFA Soil Lab, soil testing, results, pH and liming.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Registrations are now being accepted for the spring classes offered through the Stephen F. Austin State University Music Preparatory Division.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Reservations are now being accepted for a bus tour to the Dallas Cultural Arts District on Friday, Feb. 13, sponsored by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art.

Participants will be able to visit the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Crowe Collection of Asian Art.

"The highlight of the trip will be 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' at the Dallas Museum of Art," said Jill Carrington, SFA associate professor of art history and the trip's coordinator.

SFA Friends of Music board members (from left) Dee Allums, Elaine Burgess Ashcroft and Wyndell Westmoreland finalize preparations for the 2009 dinner theater, "Your Hit Parade: The 1930s," to be held Friday, Jan. 16, and Saturday, Jan. 17, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - As part of its monthly film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free one-night screening of "Man on Wire" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, in the Ledbetter Gallery of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.

Geographic Information Systems users, emergency response specialists, and forestry and natural resource professionals will converge on downtown Nacogdoches for the third-annual East Texas Geospatial Conference Jan. 21-23 at Hotel Fredonia.

The conference will provide GIS professionals opportunities for learning, networking and training and will feature Robert Joseph, director of the U.S. Geological Survey Texas Water Science Center, as keynote speaker on Wednesday. Mary Jo Naschke, public information officer for the City of Galveston, will serve as keynote speaker on Thursday.

SFA Madrigal Singers and Opera Workshop performing Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors."

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The SFA Madrigal Singers and Opera Workshop will present Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Nacogdoches.

Dr. Ron Anderson

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Texas Institute for Creativity and Innovation at Stephen F. Austin State University will host a national conference on creativity Feb. 4 - 6.

SFA-TV2, the Stephen F. Austin State University television station, will air holiday shows continuously each evening through Christmas. The programs were produced by students in Dr. Al Greule's television-production courses.

The RHA Holiday Extravaganza features performances by Soul to Soul Gospel Choir, the SFA Choir and the Raguet Elementary School Choir and holiday music from the SFA band. The show ends with the lighting of the Christmas tree located in front of the Austin Building.